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Federal lobbyist: $3M for ARC95 secured, $2M EOC request uncertain; county urged to identify projects
Summary
Federal lobbyist Jim Davenport briefed the commission that a $3 million ARC95 earmark was secured and a $2 million emergency-operations request is in a contentious appropriations bill; he advised the county to submit additional earmark candidates to Senator Moran by March.
Jim Davenport, the county's federal lobbyist, reported recent progress on congressional-directed spending and advised commissioners on next steps. Davenport said the county received a $3,000,000 earmark for an ARC 95 project via Senator Moran's support and that a $2,000,000 emergency-operations-center request is currently in the Homeland Security appropriations bill but faces uncertainty because that bill could be folded into a continuing resolution.
"We requested 3,000,000 for ARC 95. We did that in about '24 and last year, and we got, 3,000,000 for it through, Senator Moran's efforts," Davenport said, and he told staff the ARC award will flow through KDOT. He encouraged county staff to identify other high-priority projects (for example the 151st Street reconstruction) for potential earmarks and said requests to Moran's office should be assembled by March.
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